title: Evaluation of MALDI-TOF mass spectroscopy methods for determination of Escherichia coli pathotypes.
abstract: It is rapidly becoming apparent that many E. coli pathotypes cause a considerable burden of human disease. Surveillance of these organisms is difficult because there are few or no simple, rapid methods for detecting and differentiating the different pathotypes. MALDI-TOF mass spectroscopy has recently been rapidly and enthusiastically adopted by many clinical laboratories as a diagnostic method because of its high throughput, relatively low cost, and adaptability to the laboratory workflow. To determine whether the method could be adapted for E. coli pathotype differentiation the Bruker Biotyper methodology and a second methodology adapted from the scientific literature were tested on isolates representing eight distinct pathotypes and two other groups of E. coli. A total of 136 isolates was used for this study. Results confirmed that the Bruker Biotyper methodology that included extraction of proteins from bacterial cells was capable of identifying E. coli isolates from all pathotypes to the species level and, furthermore, that the Bruker extraction and MALDI-TOF MS with the evaluation criteria developed in this work was effective for differentiating most pathotypes.
authors.affiliation: Enteric Diseases Program, Bacteriology and Enteric Diseases Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, 1015 Arlington Street, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2 Canada. clifford.clark@phac-aspc.gc.ca
authors.forename: Clifford G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kruczkiewicz
authors.forename: Cai
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.forename: Stuart J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: McCorrister
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chong
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wylie
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: van Caeseele
authors.forename: Helen A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Tabor
authors.forename: Phillip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Snarr
authors.forename: Matthew W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Gilmour
authors.forename: Eduardo N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Taboada
authors.forename: Garrett R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Westmacott
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing / Q000379:methods*; D010802:Phylogeny; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial
keywords: Escherichia coli pathotype; MALDI-TOF MS; MLST; MSP; mass spectrum profile: consensus spectrum created using multiple individual spectra from replicate, different colonies of the organism tested, obtained by using specific programs within the Bruker Biotyper software